When comparing Koa vs Strapi, the Slant community recommends Koa for most people. In the question“What are the best Express.js alternatives?”Koa is ranked 1st while Strapi is ranked 2nd. The most important reason people chose Koa is:

Generators functions are of course a huge plus, but at the time Koa team has transcended generations functions and shifted towards async/await style programming. It has made the Koa best framework available in the market.

Pros

Pro

async/await keywords are supported and has transcended beyond generator functions

Generators functions are of course a huge plus, but at the time Koa team has transcended generations functions and shifted towards async/await style programming. It has made the Koa best framework available in the market.

Pro

Development team has a proven track record

Koa is developed by the team behind a widely used node.js framework (express.js).

Pro

Generator support from ground up

Using generators (a bleeding edge feature, even for Node.js) would clean up your code from the mess caused by all those callbacks; making your code more manageable.

Pro

Extremely lightweight

Koa is very lightweight with just 550 lines of code.

Pro

Built for ES6

Pro

Out-of-the-box administration panel

Easy way to manage your application. This panel allows you to add/edit/delete entries for your APIs, manage your users, groups and permissions. In the future, it will be such as WordPress-like administration panel dedicated to your application.

Pro

Auto-generate REST APIs

Strapi comes with blueprints that let you create, read, update and delete your data. You also can paginate, sort and filter your results in a matter of seconds with simple but yet specific parameters.

Pro

Users, groups and permissions

Manage user settings, login, registration, groups and permissions on the fly. Strapi delivers all those essential features out-of-the-box.

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Cons

Con

Not compatible with express style middleware

Koa uses generators which are not compatible with any other type of Node.js framework middleware.

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Has no routes separated by HTTP method or URL pattern

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Community is relatively small

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